11 Quotes by Jac Jemc

Connie sits on the toilet, and I think about whether she noticed how much the bathwater rose when I sat down in it. It's something I'd worried about since I was a teenager, the serenity of a bath marred by my anxiety about my own volume. She is so thin, so elegantly formed. I feel certain she knows the water she'd displace wouldn't be more than an inch or two.

Those minutiae calcify into the bones of our intimacy.

What is worse? To be confronted with an obvious horror, or to be haunted by a never-ending premonition of what's ahead?

What role were we playing? The ghosts or the haunted?

In movies, everyone is always surprised the door is unlocked.

When I was a child, I feared the day I would identify what I wanted to do. What I wanted was to stay free. The worst nightmare appeared to be recognizing how you wanted the world to change.

It was like seeing someone in the middle of a snowy field with no footsteps around them. Everyone has to get to where they are.

There is no acceptable, untainted name for a wilderness of the mind. People will always wonder what to believe. They expect the stray inaccuracies to be looted out and abandoned. They expect the mind’s voice to unstitch only when alone. When the seams rip, they look away.

The inability to trust ourselves is the most menacing danger.